Re: GTKADA Installation Questions

[Srini - <rasikasrinivasan@gmail.com>]

On Oct 8, 2:56 am, "Paul" <pcas1...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>         I'm trying to work my way through the GTKADA tutorial examples and
> have some questions about the preferred installation of GNAT and
> GTKADA.  I'm using Windows XP (sorry :o)), GNAT GPL 2009, GTKADA GPL
> 2.14.0 and GPS GPL 4.3.2.  All of these from the Libre site.
>
> There was an interesting discussion back in September regarding runtime
> errors and the pango.aliases file which was useful.  I had the same
> problem but while sorting that out I discovered that the GNAT
> installation and GTKADA installations have similar, but slightly
> different, directory structures.  This resulted in me having two
> different copies of the pango.aliases file.  Naturally I updated the
> wrong file and was rewarded by exactly the same error!  Perhaps there
> is a PATH problem I need to fix.   I also noticed that some of the
> duplicated files have different date/time stamps which is disturbing.
>
> So my question is should I be installing GTKADA "on top" of GNAT so
> that the duplicated directories overlap?  The installation process
> doesn't imply that this is a useful thing to do.
>
> Rgds
>
> Paul
>
> --

My gnat dir is c:\gnat\2009
gnatada is     c:\gnat\2009\GtkAda

except the pango.aliases issue, this has worked out reasonably for me.

I have a small setup.bat that looks like:

set GTKADA=C:\GNAT\2009\GTKADA
set ADA_PROJECT_PATH=%ADA_PROJECT_PATH%;%GTKADA%\lib\gnat

I am sortof at peace. However, if you want to use gps (I use mostly
emacs and the command line) then your best best is to have gtkada
installed in the gnat directory.

Hope this helps. I would like other feedback as well.

thanks, srini